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film. now, 74 years after dorothy left oz, disney's revisiting the yellow brick road with "oz the great and powerful." billing it as a prequel. >> it sets up things what happened in the famous story we're all so familiar with. >> reporter: this new oz is not a musical. what it lacks in show tunes it makes up for in modern 3-d and computer generated effects. disney's betting heavily on this gamble, spending an estimated $200 million just to produce the movie. what's at stake for the studio? >> for them, this is a big deal. not only is it iconic property that they're being entrusted with, they got a lot of money on the line. >> reporter: major money and creative hurdles. while the oz books by l. frank bomb are in the public domain, warner bros. owns the rights to the "wizard of oz" film and so several story elements in that movie, like dorothy's iconic ruby slippers are off limits to
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disney. >> i think the disney lawyers had to be on set to say, hey, you're going a little close to what the ownership of warner bros. is part of. so we have to be careful of that. >> reporter: so will disney's interpretation of the land of oz alienate fans of the hollywood classic? not according to james franco, who plays oz. >> we pay respect to a lot of the aspects that people expect and love about the world of oz. and that's, you know, mainly taken from the books. and then there is, you know, a fresh take on some of the characters. so you're getting enough of the old and enough of the new. >> reporter: so while you won't see a tin man or scarecrow in this oz, the yellow brick road is still in place, along with the witches. and disney is hoping the land of oz can once again turn movie magic into box office gold. nischelle turner, cnn, hollywood. >> all right, we'll soon find out. that's going to do it for
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me. i'm fredricka whitfield. time for brooke baldwin. moments ago, the men deciding the next pope finally revealed the big date. but what the heck have they been talking about behind closed doors? i'm brooke baldwin. news is now. a man who helped plan 9/11 is right now sitting in new york city. not gitmo. we'll debate the fate of osama bin laden's son-in-law. plus, a medical examiner needs help identifying bodies. so he's posting their graphic pictures online. and -- >> what did you say? what did you say? >> bieber drama. showing up late, collapsing, tweeting suggestive pics. are we watching another star fall?
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happy friday. good to see all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. at the vatican today, it was the vote to decide the vote. so now we have a date. it is march 12th that is next tuesday. that is when those 115 cardinals will meet to choose benedict's successor. that's when we start the so-called smoke watch. remember this from eight years ago? here it was, when we saw the white smoke rising above the vatican, from the chimney, there at the beautiful sistine chapel in rome. that is when the world knows. that's a signal when we will have a new pope. the white smoke. but until then, there is a lot to do. in fact, the chimney hasn't even been built yet. and as far as communications there has been a ban inside this hotel where the cardinals will be staying. well, it turns out they still need to put in the cell phone jammers and the anti-bugging devices. ben wedeman, our senior
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international correspondent in rome for us right now. and as we mentioned, there is still a lot going on. still a lot to do here before the conclave even begins to then decide who the next pope is. what is taking them so long? >> reporter: well, certainly what we saw all week, brooke, was some very intense discussions among the cardinals talking about issues of governance, some of the leaks that have taken place over the last few years with the vatican, a lot to discuss, a lot to deal with before they finally got around, after five days of discussions, to deciding upon the date of the conclave. and as you said, they still have a lot of work to do yet before they go tuesday afternoon into the conclave. they'll just have one vote in the sistine chapel on tuesday, followed by four a day until they finally come up with that white smoke declaring we have a
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pope. >> ben wedeman, before we see that white smoke, though, i know there are people betting on this. we have talked about the sweet sistine. who are some of the favorites for the next pope? >> reporter: brooke, the top two are mark oulette of canada. he would represent the south and american block. scola, more a favorite of the vatican and the european cardinals, but really it is wide open field, certainly compared to 2005, when benedict was the fairly obvious candidate at the time. this time there seems to be a much broader range of choice and a broader range of opinion when it comes to how the vatican is
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run, which really seems to be the main concern here in rome at the moment. brooke? >> still what an exciting time to be in rome, greatest time, ben wedeman, we'll see you in the coming days and weeks. we appreciate it. now let's talk about osama bin laden's son-in-law. nabbed in jordan in a cloak and dagger escapade, just appeared here in federal court in manhattan. he is suleman abugathe. he pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to kill americans and by all accounts here this terror merchant will be the highest ranking al qaeda official to go on trial in new york since before 9/11. on that account, some folks are getting all kinds of jumpy over the fact this will take place in manhattan. senator lindsey graham among them. >> we believe firmly that gitmo, there is no substitute for it, that congress will agree upon, that it is the right place to put an enemy combatant for
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interrogation and at all possible trial. >> we're going to talk about a little of the politics of that a little later. first, suleman abugathe. tim lister here, executive editor. he wasn't an operations guy, but clearly he was well connected. a son-in-law of bin laden. here he is side by side with him. how did we get our hands on him? >> like an episode out of "homeland". he was skulking around in iran for ten years. got there in 2002. he seems to be very restless. at some point the iranians pushed him or he decided to go. he crosses the border into turkey on a forged saudi passport. the turks horrified, this is the last thing they want. he's in turbish custody for four weeks. the cia alerted the turks he was staying at this luxury hotel in ankara. >> luxury hotel. >> they put him on a plane to kuwait, his land of birth, but the plane stops in jordan and the jordanians, close to the
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cia, hand him over. that's what we are led to believe and a day later he's back in new york. >> i read he's given someone a lengthy statement. what do we know about what he said? >> not a lot. apart from the fact it is a 22-page statement he gave after his arrest, after he was passed into the custody of u.s. authorities. they also are examining various audio recordings he made presumably while still being interrogated by the turks. beyond that, we don't know what he said. >> you mentioned that he was in iran for a bit of time. he, other al qaeda operatives, had been in there. iran doesn't like them. they don't like iran. what gives? >> you remember immediately after 9/11, president g.w. bush said you're with us or against us. iran said a bit of both, actually. they did hand over a lot of al qaeda operatives, sent them back to their lands of origin, immediately after 9/11, because so many al qaeda people came into iran. but they held on to some. perhaps because they wanted some sort of insurance in the future, in case al qaeda should turn against iran, one of them, very
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important operational planner behind the bombings of the u.s. embassy in east africa back in 1998, and quite a lot of bin laden family members. so they were stuck there. gradually iran tired of al qaeda, and they're on the other side of this historic spit, sunni, shia, and iran had no time for al qaeda what it was doing in iraq, what it is now doing in syria. so they're on the opposite side of this titanic struggle. and then there was this kidnapping of an iranian diplomat in pakistan and a year later this guy was freed, and the cost to al qaeda got was, well, you're going to release some of our people. addal, we think, fled to pakistan from iran and now abugathe left too. >> he'll be tried in manhattan as opposed to taking him to guantanamo, clearly creating a lot of buzz. we'll tackle that with our hot
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topics panel in a couple of minutes. tim lister, thank you. appreciate it. now this, as we look at the big board here, the dow after some pretty huge news this morning, let's look at the big board. the dow, is it up? let me see. yes it is. 48 points up at 14,377. all of this reacting to a pretty positive jobs report out this morning. but, christine romans, the real headline is what is inside february's numbers. christine? >> brooke, this was a stronger than expected employment report. 236,000 jobs created, 7.7% unemployment rate. that jobless rate fell in part because 130,000 people dropped out of the labor market. they weren't finding the opportunity to keep looking. this is how it breaks down between private sector job growth, 246,000 private sector job growth, 36 months in a row the companies have been hiring. but the government, laying off 10,000 workers, economists telling us, those were most likely school related jobs. let's look at where you can see
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other parts of job creation and job loss. mostly retail jobs here, 24,000, wholesale trade, professional business services, anything that has to do with computer systems design, by the way, did well there. those are good paying jobs and construction. 48,000 jobs in construction. this is a hurricane sandy rebuilding story, but more than anything else, it is a housing recovery story there for those construction jobs. i want to add one more number to sort of be, i guess, the dark cloud, around this silver lining. and that is the under employment rate. 14.3%. you'll hear from a lot of folks who say the jobless -- the jobless rate is not better for me. well, they're probably right. 14.3% is the unemployment rate, plus the number of people who have been sidelined by the economy. they're working part time, but would like to be working full time. some people call this the real employment rate. that number, brooke, is still too high. >> christine romans, thank you.
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now my space geeks and people who just care that there is a huge asteroid hurling our way here, if you're thinking, hang on, i heard this one before, you have. we told you about the one that buzzed past us earlier this year, a couple of weeks ago. also, you saw the video, that meteor exploded over russia, a month ago. let's talk about this one coming our way this weekend. meteorologist alexandra steele to tell us how worried, if at all, we should be, or thinking this is pretty cool. tell me about this asteroid. >> the latter. no fear, no threat. it is cool. it is called 2-2013 because of the year et. there is no danger. just unsettling. we mentioned this before, and the key to one just a few weeks ago and this one we'll see saturday is they haven't been detected until days before. the one we'll see this weekend only detected nine days ago. >> that's the thing. that's the frightening part. >> and it is hot on the heels of, of course, the russian meteor on february 15th that did do damage. that was a meteor this is an
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asteroid. an asteroid is a rocky object, millions of them in space. a meteor is an asteroid that burns up entering our atmosphere, think more shooting star. here is the deal with this. the size of a football field and aren't they all? and the meteor in russia was about six times smaller than this. and it is quite far away. 2 1/2 times the distance between the earth and the moon. and, again, no threat. no fear. it is too feint to see from your backyard telescope. recently discovered. and i think what happened, astronomers think there is a million out there. they only discovered about 9700 of them. so more, i think there is a move afoot, brooke, to do a little more in asteroid research in terms of detection. but interesting nonetheless. >> i think also you can hop online and you can watch it. >> that's right. you can. i was going to show it to you live. it is raining, so you can't see it. we're keeping an eye on that. >> alexandra, thank you very much. and now this. unidentified bodies, filling up in this one illinois morgue.
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how about this one? the cook county morgue, in chicago, has taken the unusual and perhaps controversial step of posting photos of unclaimed bodies on its website, for anyone to see. a warning, the images, while blurred, that we're about to show you are graphic. so just heads up. this is what we're talking about. this is a man, white male, in his 50s with a couple of unique tattoos, which they also here show on the website. body brought into the morgue. but like thousands of americans each and every year, no family, no friends ever showed up to claim the body. so what's the medical examiner's office to do? take a couple of pictures, upload the photographs to the website. victor blackwell was here. i was in detroit a couple of years ago. this was the beginning when the economy started taking a tumble. family members who could recognize and identify a loved one in a morgue, they couldn't
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afford burial. >> that's the case for some people unclaimed. there are two categories. there is unclaimed and unidentified. we checked with cook county. this is the chicago area. they have 45 unclaimed persons, which means they know who they are, but no one has come, next of kin, to retrieve the bodies. there is also the unidentified. they have 18 of those. they have no idea who these people are. and imagine, you know, a daughter runs away, or an uncle who maybe has dementia wanders off one day and you never have any idea what happened to that person. this is their opportunity to, i remember a butterfly tattoo or a scar and pick that person out. >> but, not everyone in this world has, you know, benevolent motivations and there are people out there. how do they make sure someone who is maybe not a relative or not a friend comes and says, hey, that's my brother with perhaps nefarious intentions for the body for who knows what? >> you never know what people are searching for online. dental records. if you say this is my brother,
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these are his dental records, you have to prove it or they hand it back over to the police department. they'll take a dna sample from the body and the person coming forward to claim that body and match them up to decide if you have any relation at all and only after that is confirmed will you get that body. >> what if no one steps forward? how long does cook county me keep the bodys? >> for cook county specifically, it could take up to a year and then they'll bury that person. it goes over to the board of health and they have the custody of the body. it takes a year to get to the point where they'll bury this body. it varies from county to county, state to state. it starts in some jurisdictions in a few days. some it takes years. i was talking to a federal official, a spokesperson, who says he's been to some jurisdictions, some counties, where he's seen skeletons in boxes. >> skeletons. >> skeletons because -- >> that's how long they have been sitting there. >> decades. decades. >> wow. it's sad. >> it is. but this is an opportunity to
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lion, that is apparently what happened to intern dianna hanson in california. officials are now saying this lion somehow escaped its feeding cage wednesday, moved into this larger pen where hanson was cleaning and quickly attacked her. >> quick suffocation, and neck fracture. there was no blood. and they think it was a quick death followed by just some injuries of the lion that was probably just playing too hard. >> dianna's family released a statement to us. they say they know in their hearts dianna has no regret and would be upset to hear the lion was shot. there she goes. west virginia, standing room only as this memorial bridge came crashing down. you hear the cheers. a lot of people standing by to watch. world war ii veterans, some of the city's vips cheered as an
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explosion brought the aging bridge down, soon to be replaced by a brand-new one. ♪ amazing grace that spiritual hymn got the 82-year-old woman dragged off, you see the surveillance video here, cell phone video, dragged off this miami train by security, a passenger caught the whole thing on a cell phone last month. the security guard said emma anderson broke a no singing rule. mayor carlos jimenez apologized to anderson a day after the transit authority defended the guard. anderson is now exploring legal options. it is the conference that showcases what's hot in music and film and the digital world and today south by southwest kicks off. here's a taste. >> welcome to south by southwest. >> pitching, partying, it is all part of the south by southwest culture and all kicking off here at capital factory in austin, texas, at the annual startup crawl. >> the transporter is the
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world's first social storage drive. >> this produces 3-d content as quickly and as easily as a camera. >> we have two dozen chats from all over the world that teach cooking classes. >> if you want to get noticed, it is really hard. it is hard to get noticed in all the crowd. for a startup, they can be part of this huge crawl, this huge party, and get some exposure and meet people and have a presence in south by southwest. >> this is refreshing. i'm getting energized by being around people who are building really crazy things. there is something happening here you can't ignore. when you have 2,000 people here, you know, going around town, looking at startups, there is something going on here. >> and there she is. in the middle of it all, lori siegel. i'm jealous. i was there this time last year. this is the technology portion of south by. what's hot? right now? >> sure, well, i will say right now, brooke, we're at the capital factory, an incubate we are all sorts of entrepreneurs, building out great products. that's the spirit of south by.
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bring entrepreneurs to austin, bring great new technologies and show what's hot. so i've been asking around and usually there is a hot app and people are talking about what's next. and i hadn't really heard, you know, no one is saying this is the next big thing. what a lot of people are talking about are technology that is expanding beyond your smartphone. so where as it used to have twitter and four square that were hot here, now we're seeing people who have different arm bands that help you -- you can feel your heart beat using your smartphone and that kind of thing. we're seeing this extension of technology. it is moving beyond the smartphone. i sat down with bill gates the other day and he told me robotics were the next big way. we're seeing this move, beyond this smartphone and into the real world. i can imagine we might see people wearing google glasses. we're going to a drone expo tomorrow, people are programming different types of drones. lots of cool things happening here and just the beginning because it is starting today, brooke. >> so you can make me more jealous, are you staying for the music portion? >> i wish. might overlap a little bit, but
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that's the great part of austin, there is such a good music scene. if i can catch some live music, you better bet i will try. >> lori siegel in austin, texas, thank you. we'll look for you reporting from south by southwest. from reverend jesse jackson to actor sean penn, thousands gather for hugo chavez's funeral today. just ahead, we'll tell you the unique way that chavez will be memorialized forever. it's not what you think. it's a phoenix with 4 wheels. it's a hawk with night vision goggles. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas with smaller footprints.
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american civil rights leader reverend jesse jackson and actor sean penn in caracas, venezuela, today, joining cuban leader raul castro and the president of iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad for the funeral of outspoken venezuelan president hugo chavez. ahmadinejad even seen kissing the coffin. since his death, just this past tuesday, more than 2 million
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people have already filed past his open coffin to see the once revered but equally despised anti-american leader before he was buried. but it turns out they didn't have to rush. it has now been decided that chavez's body will be displayed in a glass coffin forever. just in to cnn, perhaps the most telling pictures yet of some of north korea's love and devotion for its leader, here it is, this is what we were just talking about, jim clancy, an emotional almost fanatic response to kim jong-un as he visited a military camp near the south korean border. troops raising their arms in apparent joy. as he left, soldiers and people from a nearby village chasing, look at them go, through the water, towards his boat, swarming the beach, wading into the freeding cold water, there he is waving good-bye, sending him off. but the reason for his visit to this area, it is a frightening one. this was all part of the young
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leader's swift and defiant response to u.n. sanctions against north korea. cnn international's veteran reporter, anchor, everything else, jim clancy, in the studio here. we know that the sanctions were unanimously approved, so explain to me what kim jong-un was doing in the hours afterwards. >> well, you know, i looked at that video and i thought to myself -- >> what was that? >> they really would be cheering if he was actually leaving the country, because it is a devastated wreck. he is on the ropes. he is more isolated than ever. this is all staged. we know that. >> propaganda. >> it is a propaganda film put together with a great leader there and he's waving good-bye to his, you know, these people, the people in a frenzy. i don't doubt some of the people were really like that, because if they didn't cheer they could end up in one of those labor camps where he has tens of thousands of people including their families. you know, the hermit kingdom just got much more isolated this
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week, really. i'm sure a, for him it a little frightening. >> the u.s. is in talks with their remaining ally, china. want to play this sound. >> north korea is pursuing a course of action that threatens china's interests, its economic interests, its interests in regional peace and stability as well as that of the larger international community. they too agreed it was time for much tougher action. >> provocations, provocations, we have heard this before. >> what she said about china, i'm telling you, for the kim dynasty there, china has been the only person that's been there, the only country standing by them, helping them out what are the chinese thinking? they're going along with sank sanctions, sending this message and it reflects what we saw published in the op-ed in the financial times, chinese communist party scholar wondering if the relationship has gone on long enough. they're afraid. they always supported them because they were afraid they would collapse. millions of refugees would pour into china. now they may be more afraid of
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these guys getting nuclear weapons and even trying to blackmail the chinese regime into getting what they want. when they abandon them, this situation gets very dangerous indeed, that's what we're seeing this week, the threats back and forth. this is serious. >> this is serious. jim clancy, thank you very much. coming up next, our hot topics panel here. bill clinton reversing his stance on gay marriage. is he protecting his legacy here? remember, he was the one that signed the defense of marriage act into law. plus, the trial of bin laden's son-in-law. get gitmo or gotham? and justin bieber, this one will hit a nerve. our panelists are standing by. matt's brakes didn't sound right... ...so i brought my car to mike at meineke...
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here we are, the part of the show where, for the next 20 minutes, we're hitting the hot topics you'll be talking about during the lunch table, the dinner table here today. first up, former president bill clinton says it is time to dump
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doma. you know, doma, defense of marriage act. it is the act that he signed into law 17 years ago. it defines marriage as a union between men and women. now, clinton is loudly jumping on the rainbow bandwagon, writing this editorial in "the washington post," urging the supreme court to find doma unconstitutional and discriminatory. let me bring in my panel on this friday. we have blogger co-founder jorie desjardins, deedee mcgwire, mark lamont hill, and bill stein. welcome to all of you. >> ben. >> ben stein. what did i say? >> bill. >> come on, i know ben stein. slip of the tongue, my friend, i apologize. mark lamont hill, let me begin with you. what do you think of the fact that bin laden's son-in-law will be tried in manhattan? >> i have mixed feelings about it. on the one hand, new york had a lot of pain, new york has been
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through a lot. we all as a nation felt the tragedy of 9/11, but new york had a special pain to it. and so to that extent i think it is a good idea. people want to see him, you know, tried somewhere like gitmo. we want to close gitmo, so you don't want him there. all of that makes sense. my only problem is this creates more of a spectacle and it becomes extremely costly to have a crocodile like this in new york. it puts the big red terrorist bull's eye on new york city. i'm not sure it is a safest or financially smart thing to do. but it does help the city heal, so i can go either way with this. >> we'll go to clinton here in a minute. i jumped ahead. we're talking about how osama bin laden's son-in-law will be tried in manhattan and not at all in guantanamo bay. and we're also hearing from some republicans who are absolutely livid. let me jump in, who say he should be tried in guantanamo, specifically reading a quote from mike rogers saying, quote, we should treat enemy combatants like the enemy, the u.s. court system is not the appropriate venue. the president needs to send any captured al qaeda members to
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guantanamo. marc perplexed. ben stein what do you think? >> when we were capturing german prisoners during world war ii or japanese prisoners we didn't send them for trial. they're enemy combatants. i think they go to gauantanamo bay and they should be kept there. they're dangerous. bringing them to new york, bringing a target for al qaeda to attack and blow up, there is no point in spending all this money on it, when we're supposed to be saving money. i don't see any plus to it whatsoever. >> ben brings up an interesting point. do you all agree? are there fears of retaliations, attacks in manhattan? this is on a much smaller scale than we would have seen with ksm and other masterminds of 9/11. that was taken to guantanamo back in 2010. but do you fear that? jorie? >> i was going to say -- go ahead, i'm sorry.
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>> i don't care if it's guantanamo or -- i don't. i don't care where it is. i think we need to heal. i think we have to have a trial nonetheless. i do think though that people heal differently. and some people really will have a lot of pain come up as a result of this trial. it is not the trial of the century. we can't treat it like the trial of the century. >> but -- go ahead, deedee. >> i totally agree. i think this is closure. i think new york, the nation, we want to see closure. i think when we find out about bin laden, the capture and everything with bin laden, how that went down, we didn't get a chance to really know until after the fact. and i think that this right here could help with closure, not just in new york, but for the nation. that's something that -- >> is closure really possible? >> with all due respect, with all due respect to miss mcgwire there is never going to be closure when you have an taatta like this that kills 3,000 people. >> you talk to the families. i guarantee you, if you talk to
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the families, i guarantee they'll want closure you can say you don't, but think about the families with lost loved ones. >> i don't think ben is saying he doesn't want closure. he's saying it is hard to have closure. one thing we have is blood lust. i say let us have democracy. let's have a real trial -- >> we never know what's goes on. we never see what happens. >> this time we will see what goes on with the fact that -- >> that's the point. >> it is playing out in court. >> what is going to be charged with? what is he charged with if he's in trial? he's not a u.s. citizen, so can't be treason? he's going to be charged with being an enemy combatant. that's not a crime under u.s. code, so he should just be treated as a military prisoner. that's what he is. >> wow. >> when you hear from peter bergen, cnn terrorism analyst, written books on these kinds of
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things, you look at the military panels, they have barely accomplished anything. one opinion among many. >> just keep him there until he rots. >> i promised, let's move on. i promised bill clinton, reversing this stance on doma. is he protecting his legacy? we'll talk about that and the opinion he's written now and looking ahead coming up. you know who you are. you can part a crowd, without saying a word... if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts... well muddlers, muddle no more. try zyrtec®. it gives you powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because zyrtec® starts working at hour one on the first day you take it. claritin® doesn't start working until hour three. zyrtec®. love the air. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan.
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post." how often do you have a president asking the supreme court to strike down a law he signed, the defense of marriage act. jory, i begin with you. curious if you think he's doing this just to protect a legacy. >> yes. i do. and i applaud it. i think that every politician has a right to change their mind. i wish they did it more because we wouldn't have the problems that we have now with congress. but i also don't think there is anything wrong with changing your mind afterwards. i personally believe that clinton did what he felt he had to do at the time, which in a country that clearly did not have any laws that were protecting people who -- gay people who wanted to get married, he had to do what he had to do. he had to pick his battles. i think it is -- he still believes he could go back and right this. and it is a time when he can right it. >> why are you shaking your head? >> i don't think he changed his mind. i think his stance on gay marriage is the same it was 20 years ago. i don't think --
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>> why sign the bill into law? >> he signed it into law because he knew they would help him get re-elected. he knew he would be able to support his base. this isn't an outliar. you look at president clinton's legacy three strikes bill, the crime bill, prison litigation reform act, defense of marriage act, he imposed lots of laws that essentially allowed the right to support him, to make him this centrist bipartisan candidate and helped him endear him to the right and to the south, made him a stronger candidate. this is all -- >> i agree with that. >> one, he didn't change his mind. and, two, he didn't have to do it. he could have vetoed any bill going over his desk. he did it because he wanted to because like all clintons, he did what was in his best interest. >> got it, deedee, go ahead. >> i agree with that. to say is it going to be part of his legacy, i think that's already part of president obama. my only thing about this one is, why are we tripping when politicians flip-flop? i like that. i like knowing that you're not perfect, and it is either black
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or white. i like the fact that you can say, hey, i was wrong and it takes a big person, a big man, a -- >> but he's not saying i was wrong. he was lying. he's lying. >> he's lying? >> he's lying. he's pretending -- he's rewriting history. he's pretending there is a moment where he had to sign this bill to protect gay people from the supreme court. he did it so he could be re-elected as president. >> this happened not too long ago. you have these 72 plus -- you have these 72 plus republicans, pretty prominent republicans and some would argue no longer in the spotlight signing that. wanting to do away with prop eight. a lot of people came forward and said they're flip-floppers. an a lot of peop and a lot of people say you shouldn't be flip-flopping. >> everybody acts like there is no such thing as i was wrong, growth, coming up and saying -- i met a couple -- i met a couple
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who changed my mind. i met a couple who changed my mind. it is okay to change your mind and to flip-flop. you act like it is a bad thing that somebody can say -- >> it is not a bad thing. >> ben stein. >> the whole world has changed now. the gay population is incredibly well organized. they made a lot of good points, have incredible political clout. the whole world has changed completely since he signed the bill and now he's going along with the flow now as he did then. >> exactly. >> more impact now. >> you mean to tell me you can't feel one way -- hold on a second. we can't feel one way 20 years ago and change our minds today? is that what you're saying? >> he's a politician for god's sake. he's not a saint. he's not a pope. he's a politician. >> nobody said he was a saint. i didn't say he was a saint. >> ben stein gets the last word there. coming up, two words, justin bieber. break.
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♪ i'd like to be everything you want ♪ ♪ hey girl if i was your boyfriend ♪ the biebs, justin bieber says he will perform tonight in london, even after today's brouhaha. watch this. the bieber tangles with the paparazzi. and looks like he pushes one. obviously surrounded by bodyguards. jumps in this van. i'm sure the paparazzi are screaming at him. couple of minutes later, he unleashes a string of profanities. listen for the beeps. >> [ bleep ].
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>> what did you say? what did you say? [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> get back! >> beep, beep, beep, beep, from the bieber. here is his apology. sometimes when people are shoving cameras in your face all day and yelling the worst thing possible at you, well, i'm human. not going to let them get the best of me again. going to get focused on the show tonight, adrenaline is high now. going to put it on the stage. only way someone can break you is if you let them. ben stein, just because i never thought i would be asking you about justin bieber, i want you to open this one up here. i mean, you saw the video, you see the tweets. can't even imagine the paparazzi following anyone that closely. what do you think? are we watching another star fall? >> no, i don't think we are. nobody seems to have noticed he has a stomach ache and the stomach has a stomach ache. obviously some kind of stomach
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bug going around the united kingdom. i don't think we should blame him for being upset when he's not feeling well and he's jet lagged. i sympathize with these people. i know a lot of celebrities. all around me where i live in malibu are celebrities. they talk about it all the time, people yell at them and push them around. i sympathize with them tremendously. >> are they chasing you like that, ben stein? >> they used to when i did "win ben stein's money." and tmz comes up to me all the time at inconvenient moments and asks me questions and i don't like it. >> i'm sure you don't. >> i was going to say, in defense of justin bieber, can you imagine how tough that must be that you are now 19, and you are coming into your world as -- going into manhood and everybody in the world is watching. miley cyrus, makes me think about britney spears, and what must that be like? he's just 19. and he's got all these young fans, but yet he's trying to grow up and trying to get people to take him seriously probably now, doing some -- i think i saw something where somebody wrecked
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his car and this or that. it is so much going on. imagine being a 19-year-old kid, a boy, going into manhood and got all this money. all this money, all these people around you. >> 19 years old, there have very few 19-year-olds that would admit they need their mama, but he needs his mama. he can't have his mama, he needs someone there who can ground him and say this isn't normal, right. this is not normal. and i know he probably thinks it is not that stressful having 25,000 girls screaming at him while he sings one last lonely girl, but it is stressful and no 19-year-old is going to admit that or be aware of that. he could be falling apart without even knowing it. >> marc, last word. >> he just had his big breakup with his girlfriend, selena gomez. maybe also he's got his first heart break -- >> let's hear it from marc. >> give the kid some space. give the kid some space. give the kid some space. let him live. he's grown up in front of us. it is a tough life. his music sucks.
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but he's a decent kid. and we should -- my only advice to justin, take some time off the road, grow up in private for a little bit. he's going through a lot. the media is going to attack him. i don't want to see him turn into britney spears. >> i need stripes and a whistle today. thank you. back after this. ars. ars. but your erectile dysfunction - you know,that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess with cialis. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision,
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the recent recession took its toll in a lot of areas. even the consumption of beer. but a small brewery in brooklyn proved to be the exception. tom foreman pays a visit in today's "american journey." >> reporter: every day amid the hustle and hum of brooklyn, something is brewing at steve hindi's place. it looks like, tastes like, and goes down like beer. but it smells like success. >> we sell beer now in 25 states. and the name brooklyn rings bells in sweden, in britain, in italy, in france, in germany, in japan, in china. >> reporter: hindi was a long time foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places. he quit the news business in the 1980s and decided to turn his hobby of making beer into a small business. he started in a part of new york
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where property values were comparatively reasonable. his small team focused on keeping costs low, quality high, helping community charities instead of buying big ads. and crafting distinctive brews that stood out from mass produced beers. >> i think the reason why we have been successful is that we have always trusted that people have good taste. rather than trying to dumb things down or do focus groups and try to figure out what does everybody like? >> reporter: the result, even as the recession raged, hindi's place kept going. even as per capita beer consumption plummeted, the brooklyn brewery kept growing. >> i think it is just the fundamental fact that people are drinking less beer, but they're drinking more special beers. and, you know, we offer a whole range of -- a whole rainbow of flavors of beer. >> reporter: this year he says they will expand their staff of 90 people, open a new shop in stockholm and sell $50 million
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worth of beer. >> our future is very exciting. >> reporter: for a former reporter and brooklyn, that's a headline. tom foreman, cnn. the men deciding next pope finally reveal the next date. what have they been talking about behind closed doors? i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. the medical examiner needs help identifying bodies. so he's posting their graphic pictures online. plus, another asteroid buzzing near earth. find out when. and -- >> are you the great man we have been waiting for? >> a lot of hype, a lot of cash. how the new version of oz in theaters tonight is playing with critics. here we go, top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin.
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first up, first lady, michelle obama honoring women from all around the world who put their lives at risk in the fight for women's rights. there is a little controversy here as we look at these live pictures. one, honoree just found out she won't be getting an award because of alleged anti-terrorism tweets. egyptian activist denies writing them, we will watch this for you and bring you news as it happens here. but, first, we are getting ready for smoke watch 2013. we now know the day. it is next tuesday, march 12th. you have these 115 cardinals, they will meet to choose benedict's successor. the world will be watching. and waiting for that moment when white smoke rises from the chimney at the sistine chapel. cnn's john allen is live in vatican city. and, john, i was shocked to read this morning that even the chimney to ultimately provide the white smoke signaling that a new pope has been revealed, that has not even finished being built yet. tell me in the final days before
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tuesday what needs to get done. >> reporter: well, first of all, brooke, that was a great sound bite. smoke watch. i'm going to steal that for one of my conclave tweets. but what is going to be happening, there are low gist cat thial things that need to be organized. they aren't finished yet installing the tables at the sistine chapel where the cardinals will sit. the important thing that will happen in the next few days is the cardinals have to get their act together politically speaking before they file into this sistine chapel, in the afternoon room time on tuesday. because the last thing these guys want is for this to become a protracted conclave, creating images of chaos and division and infighting. they want the kind of game plan before they get in there. i think everybody watching this process would say that right now that game plan is not yet in place. there is no clear front-runner in this race. one cardinal said a couple of days ago, the list of candidates seems to be getting longer rather than shorter. so over the next four days, before the magic moment comes, i
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think there is going to be a lot of important political heavy lifting going on in various roman venues to try to cobble together a consensus. >> john, once the magic moment happens, the conclave begins, take me inside that room, under the michelangelo frescos, how many hours do they meet, do they debate, is this all on paper? how does it work? >> reporter: well, you know, i think in the popular imagination people envision a smoke-filled room where cigars are being chomped and horses are being traded, but, you know, the truth is, inside the sistine chapel is more like going to mass than it is a political convention. the way it works is each cardinal has to fill out in silence a ballot, then they each individually have to process up to the table in front of michelangelo's fresco of the last judgment, swear an oath in latin promising before god that they are voting for the man they believe should be elected, then they return to their tables,
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bank of cardinals, the bank of three cardinals does a check. soup to nuts, each round of balloting takes an hour and a half to two hours. you do two in the morning and two in the afternoon. that's pretty much your day. the conversation and debate and caucusing and horse trading, all of that doesn't go on in this sistine chapel. instead, it goes on in this hotel on vatican grounds called the casa santa marta where they're spending their downtime, breakfast, lunch and dinner. that's where the political action really unfolds. >> no cigar chomping. i can't say that's where my imagination went with a bunch of cardinals, but quite the visual nonetheless. now to cruises. heads up if you like to cruise. getting sick on a cruise is definitely a buzz kill. that is the case for at least 100 people who just got back from ten day cruise with royal caribbean. it arrived at a dock in florida with a virus just a short tme ago. senior medical correspondent
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elizabeth cohen joining us. here we go. norovirus, sick, sick, sick. >> so not fun. so not fun. >> what does it do? >> two words, vomiting and diarrhea. i'm sorry to be so blunt, but that's what it is. and you feel -- it is disgusting. you feel horrible. if you're generally a healthy person, it lasts a couple of days and you're fine. if you're very old or if you're very young or if you have any immune problems, it can be much more complicated. >> do we know how it starts? >> it spreads around. it is a bug that spreads around, person to person. if you were sick and touched this table and then i touched this table, i could get the bug that way. this bug is so contagious, if you have it, chances are your family is going to get it too. >> we heard about this before on cruise ships. so is this common? >> i would say it is not uncommon. >> not uncommon. >> not uncommon at all. it is so not uncommon that the cdc has very strict guidelines for sanitizing these ships. they are supposed to be really rigorous about sanitizing them,
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and they're supposed to be rigorous about talking to people as they board, ask passengers as they board have you had a gastrointestinal illness in the last three days? and this cruise line says they did that, but if you forked over, you know, couple thousand bucks, you might not be so honest. exactly. >> hopefully these people are able to kick this quickly. >> i hope so. i really hope so. because it is definitely not a fun way to spend a cruise. >> elizabeth, thank you. >> thanks. got some great news on the employment front today. take a look. 236,000 new jobs. that is the labor department reporting today on the hiring from the month of february. a heck of a lot stronger than the experts had predicted, which is what we loved to hear. the rate of unemployment is down two ticks to 7.7%. folks, this is the best reading we have seen since 2008. hold it right there. because as you know, president obama has warned all who will listen that the $85 billion in
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those forced budget cuts, we're talking about a week ago today, will eventually cost the country 750,000 jobs. so, yeah, reality check time. gloria borger in washington, our cnn chief political analyst, bottom line, is this the reason why we're seeing this, you know, nice, nice coming from the president, a little dinner here, little lunch here, we know, you know, republican paul ryan invited to the white house just yesterday. we have, what, multiple visits to capitol hill next week. does the president see this thing, possibly heading south if they don't come together on a way to undo this? >> i think so. look, in the big picture here is on the forced budget cuts is that their strategy did not work. they thought because their strategy on the fiscal cliff worked and they got republicans to agree to new tax increases on the wealthy, and there were not budget cuts that they could do it again. and they could raise the tax
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issue again and that republicans would salute and say, yes, sir, because that's what the election was about. issue is that didn't happen. republicans dug in. they said we raised taxes two months ago. you think we're going to do that again? so when the sequester came, these forced budget cuts took effect, the president said it would be armageddon, and he kind of backed off of that. and now he's reaching out to congress. i think there are reasons for that, which is that he understands he has to get some fiscal deal in the long-term. and that he's got a new staff there that is pushing him a little bit more towards the -- towards the outreach plan. and he needs to do this for his own self-interest to get the rest of his agenda through and he's hoping republicans believe it is in their own self-interest as well. >> he's breaking bread. you write about this on cnn.com. let me quote you. even if this is a cynical and calculated dinner, hosted by a president, in danger of losing political altitude, i'll take
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it. even if the president is doing it to prove it won't work, i'll take it. is it possible that something is happening here, maybe something to break the logjam that has really seized washington for, you know, the last four and a half years? >> it is possible. but every time you suggest that something is going to work in washington, something gets in the way, and it doesn't work. i don't want to be accused of being pollyanna here, but i do think there are people on both sides of the aisle who believe that a big deal possibly over the summer would be a very good thing for the nation's economy. and the country. however, they have to get there. and, you know, the question is, you know, the president has got his democrats who don't want to give on those entitlements, like medicare, the republicans believe a lot of them would lose their congressional seats if they did anything on taxes. so, the problems are still there, but i think it is always a good sign, you know, i'm a sucker for bipartisanship, right? i think it is always a good sign when you see them sitting around
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a table and actually having some kind of unvarnished conversation. >> agreed. i'm right there with you on bipartisanship. gloria borger, thank you. >> sure. coming up, he's the son-in-law of osama bin laden and now he's in custody of the united states. some critics say he shouldn't be in manhattan, he should be in guantanamo bay. our next guest from new york says no. we'll talk to him after the break. later this hour, the so-called cannibal cop on trial in new york today. the fate now in the hands of a jury. carfirmation. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke.
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some of the hottest stories in a flash, rapid fire. roll it. this year's john f. kennedy profile in courage award is going to former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. she is being honored for her gun control advocacy efforts and in announcing the award, caroline kennedy said, quote, giffords has inspired the world with her bravery. giffords, as you know, she survived that horrific 2011 assassination attempt. six others killed in the attack in tucson, arizona. chuck hagel right now in
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afghanistan. he's making his first trip to the war zone since his confirmation. hagel says he wants to be there, he wants to thank troops, get a better understanding of what is happening on the ground. a camp ranger carjacked by that fugitive california cop killer last month is now seeking $1.2 million now in reward money offered for his capture. according to the l.a. times, shortly after rick called 911, sheriff deputies surrounded the cabin where christopher dorn wears hidorner was hiding. dorner then shot himself to death. here is the camp ranger. >> i know there is controversy about the language in that reward statement, but the bottom line is, my phone call put an end -- directly put an end to the biggest manhunt in southern california history. now, i feel they need to stand by their word, pay out that reward. i need to get some money and i want to do some good things with it. >> officials say decision on the
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reward won't be made until the investigation is complete. folks in the northeast, including many of you, you're still battling it out here in the latest blast of winter weather from new york to new england. snow is expected to turn to rain as the temperatures are rising. wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour are also likely. take a look at this video. this is scary. this is massachusetts, plum island if you know the area. this home, perched precariously close to the ocean, now collapsing into the atlantic ocean. fortunately, no one was living there, it was condemned just a couple of years ago. a jury in new york city is deliberating the fate of the so-called cannibal cop. gilberto valle is charged with planning to kidnap, cook and eat women, including his own wife. prosecutors say e-mail conversations between valle and an alleged co-conspirator prove he was out to cannibalize a woman. the defense says this was just
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fantasy. finally this new discovery may help us understand what happened before the last ice age. scientists in antarctica have discovered a new life form. it is a bacterial dna that humans have never seen before. the russian scientist who did the work say the samples were taken from an underground frozen lake that had been untouched for 14 million years. osama bin laden's son-in-law nabbed in jordan in this cloak and dagger escapade. he appeared today in federal court in manhattan. that's him on the right. this is sulaiman abu ghaith, that's his name. he pleaded not guilty. susan candiotti is in new york for me. tell me about the specific charges and also just the scene, inside the courtroom. >> reporter: right, well, the specific charge is he is facing one count of conspireing to kill americans. and if found guilty, he could spend the rest of his life in
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jail. this because he allegedly was involved in -- with al qaeda, he was the spokesperson for al qaeda. he worked with bin laden for many years and he's been seen in dozens of videos blasting the united states, in particular after the 9/11 attacks, warning americans that more attacks were to come. now, how he appeared in court this day, when we have seen him in the past, all the videotapes, very dark hair, very fiery. this time, he's very quiet, he's now balding on the top of his head, and, in fact, his beard has now turned gray. he didn't say much, except through his lawyer, to plead not guilty. brooke? >> we all remember it was just from a couple of years ago the whole hubbub over khalid sheikh mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind. justice department wanted to try him there in new york. huge public outcry over security, and costs, and inconveniences really caused by the massive security there. now we are hearing the start of some of the same kind of
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complaints. like this. >> he should be going to gitmo. he should be kept there and questioned to make sure that we have -- we know everything he knows. >> it is clear to me they snuck him in, if he's here. under the nose of most members of congress. >> susan candiotti, you're in new york, what are you hearing from folks? i know a lot of new yorkers awoke this morning to learn there is now a terrorist in their midst behind bars, of course. >> reporter: there hasn't been a huge public outcry about this as yet. but we continue to hear from many republicans who remain very critical of the obama administration saying that they slipped this man secretly into this country, that he should have been tried in their view as an enemy combatant at gitmo. however, the administration this day continues to defend its decision saying that this follows all the national security gadliuidelines.
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they have successfully prosecuted other alleged terrorists in the past. and 9/11 families that we have spoken with, some of them, anyway, are very supportive of this, saying it is finally about time after all these years that they will be able to actually attend the trial of someone with alleged direct ties to the 9/11 attacks and that they'll be able to watch it here in a courtroom in the united states. brooke? >> susan candiotti, thank you. want to stay on this. joining me now, nicholas valentine, former mayor of newburg, new york. welcome, sir. nice to have you on here. during, as we mentioned, with susan, during the really huge brouhaha over ksm, khalid sheikh mohammed controversy, he offered up his town as a site for the trial. you did in newburg, new york. when we're talking about osama bin laden's son-in-law being tried in new york, do you think it is a good idea to happen in manhattan or is the federal government about to repeat the same mistake all over again? >> well, i think it is a good idea that they're doing it as a
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trial. and that was part of the reason that i volunteered, you know, the city of newburg as a potential site. if you remember back then, they were so afraid of having a trial in new york city, and rightfully so at that time. i think the -- the aspects of terrorism, et cetera, might be something that they would want to avoid. the city that i'm in, which is newburg, new york, is a small city. we had a brand-new courtroom that we had just finished and i kind of, like, offered that up and said, look, if you want to have a trial that is public, this is a spot that you can have it. interestingly enough, i got comments even this morning when we heard about what was going on now with another trial potentially starting in new york city that, you know, mayor, you wanted to do that many years ago, and nothing happened. so it is amazing even after this many years i still hear the comments almost weekly about what i volunteered to do back then. >> that's interesting. we had a hot topics panel discussion about precisely this subject. a lot of new yorkers weighing in. some of them saying that they
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would fear a potential retaliation. we all know the horrendous acts that happened on 9/11. even if it wasn't to that degree, do you not fear at all that something like that could happen by having this person, this, you know, al qaeda operative on our soil being tried in new york? >> no, i don't. and i think the reason being is i think we're strong enough as a country to say that, you know what, let's put these people on trial. let's put an end to this, rather than having it linger as it has been lingering year after year. people want answers. they wanted a verdict. and i think the response when i volunteered to do this in the city of newburg was over 95% of people saying i want to be in that courtroom, i want to be part of the process that all of us as citizens go through, why should somebody be exempt from that and i think that feeling is still just as strong now as it was then. >> now we will have this trial
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in new york of this son-in-law of osama bin laden, nicholas valentine, former mayor of newburg, new york. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. this weekend, be on the lookout, another asteroid, this one, they're saying right around the size of a football field, set to fly by earth. how close? can you watch? those answers are next. this is america.
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all right, get ready. another asteroid set to buzz past earth this weekend. comes in less than a month here since that other asteroid we saw passing by. also that meteor that we saw exploding in the skies above russia. want to walk over to alexandra steele as we have been talking. >> come over to our asteroid world. >> we're coming into your layer here inside the weather center. i'm hearing different reports of how big this thing is, basically what are we going with? football field size? >> aren't they all? i think that's the best way to describe what 300 feet is, you know, though. there is a move anfoot for asteroid detection. this asteroid we'll see on
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saturday, the one last month and the russian meteor now on february 15th that really did some damage that you saw, had all been undetected until just days before. >> that's the frightening part. you know there are asteroid hunters. >> i think a move afoot to have more asteroid detection out there. there are a million asteroids. we no thaknow that, bits of roc floating around. there is a lot more to know. this one is called 2013 et, 2013 for the year discovered. and this is the distance. >> very creative. >> aren't they all? and maybe et for extra terroristial out theterrorisextl out in the world. so certainly far away. it is too faint. won't see it. even outside, if you're out there with your telescope like i am, you won't see this one. that's how far it is. no threat to earth at all. but i think what is most
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interesting, because, of course, now the russian was a meteor. this is an asteroid. an asteroid is bits of rock flying at us up there. what a meteor is is an asteroid coming through our atmosphere, think more shooting star. those are the differences. >> i think i love you even more since you said you have a telescope in your backyard. >> i thought everybody did. we're all geeks in here. coming into the geek department. >> thank you, i appreciate it. coming up next, news on everyone, everything, including some old faces popping up in the new "star wars." michael jordan about to tie the knot. and global temperatures are higher than they have been in a really long time. the power block is next. love about her. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications,
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whoop-de-do. >> are you the great and powerful man we have been waiting for? disney's version of oz hitting theaters today. this is the prequel to the 1930s classic. reviews, they're kind of mixed. some are trashing it. others, well, a cnn review called it spirit and style, quote, more than good enough. ♪ i'd like to be everything you want ♪ ♪ hey girl let me talk to you ♪ the biebs is feeling better but posted a photo that could leave his young fans a little woozy. and there is about to be an empty chair on the view. entertainment correspondent nischelle turner is hanging out at south by southwest in austin, texas. hey, nischelle. >> reporter: i know this is one place you really wish you were, right? south by southwest. this is the festival where music, film and technology all collide in a real cool and geeky way. over the next ten days, austin, texas, will be the entertainment industry mecca. where else can you find bill
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gates, quentin tarantino and shaquille o'neal together, right? exactly. there are some other entertainment stories that are breaking today. a big one over at abc. after 16 years, joy behar is leaving "the view." now, besides barbara walters, she was the last original member of "the view" team left. abc says that she is moving on. they say that she has been instrumental in the success of "the view" from the beginning and they wish her the best in her future endeavors. joy, said, yeah, it's time. time to move on to a new chapter in her life and paying attention to some things she was neglecting, like writing her play and doing her stand-up. i also got to ask what is going on with justin bieber? apparently he fainted last night during his concert e got sick on stage, had to go backstage and get treated. he did have to go to the hospital, his rep tells cnn that justin is out of the hospital. he is feeling under the weather, but still plans to do his
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concert tonight. now, justin after he went to the hospital, posted some pictures on instagram last night. posted one of them with him listening to his headphones saying he was listening to janice joplin getting better. a shirtless picture of himself on instagram. and that sent all of the beliebers into a flutter. he does plan on attending his concert tonight. it has been a long and crazy week for him. he turned 19. had a big birthday bash. and now he has gotten sick once again on stage. brooke, lots going on in the entertainment industry. but, yes, south by southwest is the place to be. don't be jealous. back to you. >> but you know i am, my friend. nischelle turner in austin, thank you. pandora looking for a new leader. joe kennedy surprised everyone by stepping down as ceo of the internet radio service. kennedy is quitting just as pandora is getting more
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listeners and more money. the company's last quarter was stronger than expected financially. and pandora is forecasting better than expected revenue this quarter. pandora shares are up almost 20%, trading today around $14 a share. caffeine heads, i know i have my cup of coffee in the morning. we all have now a new way to get our jolt. wait for it. caffeinated gum. wrigley going after adults with its new alert energy caffeine gum. alert is a -- apparently has the same caffeine as half a cup of coffee, the same bitter taste, even though it comes in fruit and mint flavors and it costs $2.99 for eight pieces. wrigley's branching out as sales of energy drinks are spiking and gum sales are falling. kobe bryant was on jimmy kimmel live last night. just a couple of days after dennis rodman's visit to north korea. kimmel asked him about that. he asked bryant, would you go to north korea? here was his response? >> would you go over there and focus on stopping this potential
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nuclear warhead that could come -- that seems more important than the game. >> yeah, but i probably would pass. >> you would pass on that one? >> i would pass on that one. >> for once you're passing. >> going to the chapel, michael jordan, the basketball legend and unc tar heel has applied for license to marry model yvette prieto. jordan led the chicago bulls to six nba championships and now majority owner of the charlotte bobcats. american civil rights leader reverend jesse jackson and actor sean penn is in caracas, venezuela, today. shasta darlington is live in caracas. and, shasta, i think the big question now is what happens to chavez's social revolution? will maduro, the vice president, will he keep it going?
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>> reporter: well, you know, that's definitely the plan. he is the handpicked successor for hugo chavez. and he's already stepped up the rhetoric, showing he can walk the walk and talk the talk. what we need to see, though, is once everything is over and done with, we'll have elections, polls indicate that maduro will likely win those elections against the opposition candidate. what can he do from there? that's because so far over the past 14 years, hugo chavez has managed to really reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, bring people out of poverty. and done a lot of specific things like introducing health clinics into neighborhoods that didn't have doctors, education. but he's done that with all of the revenues from the very abundant oil reserves here. and those have been to a certain degree depleted. maduro will be up against a rock here. those reserves have been -- have started to run down, he's going to have fewer reserves and he'll
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run into a bit of a cash crunch. there is already a really big economic problem in venezuela, there is high inflation, unemployment, and there is already a scarcity of goods on the shelves. so he's going to have to figure out how to keep the socialist revolution going and attend to the very pressing economic problems. so in the short-term, he's got the sympathy vote of all of these chavez supporters. in the mid and long term, he has to prove he can keep it going. >> shasta darlington in caracas, thank you. earth is the hottest it's been in 4,000 years. and it is getting hotter. this is according to new research published today in the journal science. researchers use sediment and polar ice samples to study global temperatures going back more than some 11,000 years. here's what they found. that the climate has gone from one of the coldest decades to one of the hottest, all of this in just one century. so, listen to this, if you're like me, you buy a lot of music online, there is now word you can make money off of doing
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if you are like me, and you have a lot of music or movies you bought on itunes here, i got my list, constantly running out of space, last listening to the postal service here this morning, i know some of you, you want to keep it forever, some of you not so much, you paid for this music, right? you don't want to delete it, but you can't sell it. you can't trade it. but that may soon change. allisison kosik at the new york stock exchange. i read about this in my eand my perked up here. i know apple wants to let a sell or trade now possibly some of the items we buy on itunes. >> exactly. so if this whole idea pans out, brooke, it means that, you know,
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more people like you and me will be able to sort of be more incentivized, by uy more songs, music and shows. we're not going to listen to it much or watch the movie but once, this would be a little bit of a different idea. so now what would happen is you have a chance to make some money off it. so apple now has a patent application that is in the works that looks to create a system to actually let you loan or sell your itunes content to other people. let's say you bought a movie, you no longer want it, you can sell the rights to somebody else. the content would be attached to their apple i.d. and you would no longer have access to it. it appears you would get a cut of the resale price as would the original publisher. it is a good way for apple to attract and retain users who, you know, otherwise may not have, but just because there is a patent application, brooke, don't get too excited, doesn't mean this is definitely going to happen. but it shows there is some possibility for it. >> it is interesting. we'll make sure we tweet the article out. i'm already getting a lot of
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tweets, what, you can sell your music? >> not just yet. >> not just yet. we'll keep an eye on the dow as well. the unemployment down now to 7.7%. so the dow clearly responding in positive territory here as we are 15 minutes away from the closing bell. coming up next, though, cook county morgue in chicago taking a rather unusual, maybe controversial here, step of posting photos of unclaimed bodies right there on the website for anyone to see. we're on the case, talking about this next. chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save.
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pictures of unclaimed bodies on a website. definitely an unusual, maybe controversial step here. but the cook county morgue in illinois, in chicago specifically, apparently found it necessary. we're going to show you a couple of examples what i'm talking about. just a warning, the images are graphic. we blurred them. but take a look. this is what i'm talking about on this website. this is a man. this is a dead man, white male in his 50s. couple of unique tattoos which she also show on the website for identification purposes. his body was brought to the morgue, but like thousands of other americans, each year, no family, no friends ever showed up to claim him. j joey jackson on the case with me today. and, joey, look, i mean, the economy is in a place where i know a lot of people can't even afford to identify or claim bodies because, you know,
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cremation, burial is expensive. do you anticipate legal challenges here? >> i have to say this, brooke, i think certainly it is controversial and certainly unusual, but i don't believe it to be illegal. so therefore i think there is also a lot of support here. in cook county alone there is 32 bodies at the office of the county medical examiner and they haven't been identified. you have people out there who are very caring and concerned and wondering, oh, my goodness, where are my loved ones. remember also, brooke, there is a national database, it doesn't go as far as this does in regards of posting photos, it comes close, but i think this is a step in the right direction. will it be challenged? we live in a very litigious society and who knows what people will do. i think they're on sound legal footing to do it. i think it is overdue, quite frankly. >> i'm curious if it will be successful if counties will follow suit, watch for it. >> i think they will. i think they will. >> this 86-year-old woman with parkinson's disease and dementia, she's been charged with voter fraud in minnesota
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because she voted by absentee ballot, couldn't remember if the person she voted for was a person she wanted, so she up and walked over to a community center in august and she voted again. and, joey jackson therein lies the rub here. did the prosecutor, though, did they really have to bring charges? i mean, could she really face time? >> no and no. here's the way this works, brooke. at happens is there is a need to not monitor voter fraud, but with regard to illegality, common sense has to come into play. if you have someone who has dementia and may not remember what they do, remember what the law requires, it requires mens rayia, guilty mind, and that means you have to have intent. and if you vote because you didn't remember that you did, that sort of negates intent. the prosecutor is saying, wait a second, there is a law that says if there is probable cause of a crime, we have to go forward. remember this, brooke, if there is no crime, why go forward?
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if you don't have mental state to commit the crime, there is no probable cause. leave the poor lady alone. god bless her. >> drop it. 86 years of age. joey jackson, thank you. >> good to see you, brooke. coming up, the so-called cannibal cop, he's in court today. and his fate now in the hands of the jury. we'll take you live to the courthouse next. searching for a bank designed for investors like you? tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 schwab bank was built with all the value and convenience tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 investors want. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 like no atm fees, worldwide. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and no nuisance fees. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 plus deposit checks with mobile deposit. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550
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a jury in new york city is now deliberating the fate of this cop accused of plotting to become a cannibal. gilberto valle is charged with planning to kidnap, cook and eat women, including his own wife. prosecutors say these e-mail conversations between this man and an alleged co-conspirator prove he was out to cannibalize
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women, but the defense says, no, this was merely fantasy. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joins me outside that courthouse. sunny, based upon what you have seen, which way do you think the jury might be leaning here? >> reporter: you know, i've got to tell you, i thought this was a pretty weak case for the prosecution. i thought this jury would come back immediately. well, brooke, they have been deliberating two days, seven hours. they just sent a note out saying that they would be closing their deliberations at 4:00, going home over the weekend, and resuming deliberations on monday. many court observers are just shocked. i'm shocked as well. obviously they're really struggling with this case. was it a fantasy? did he really intend to murder, rape, chop up women, eat them? obviously the jury hasn't figured that out yet. >> and the deliberations continue. sunny hostin in new york, thank you. now, piers morgan. piers sat down today with world famous music producer clive
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davis, who has been in the news lately for revelations here in his book. and piers got the scoop from the man behind pop music's biggest stars. let's just say, nothing was off limits. >> for the first time having failed in marriage twice, not related at all to sex, i opened myself up to the possibility of having a relationship with a person rather than a gender. and that's what i turned to. but i found that the attitude in general toward bisexuality is you're either gay, straight or you're lying. for me, it has not been that case. and maybe even though this is just a part of my life, and i wouldn't have written a biography without disclosing that, maybe some goodwill come of it. >> i know you want to keep watching the interview. you can. "piers morgan tonight" tonight, the clive davis you don't know. "piers morgan tonight," tonight, 9:00 eastern, only on cnn.
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